This article is about the 1943 movie. For the German World War II offensive Watch on the Rhine, see Battle of the Bulge.
For other uses, see Watch on the Rhine (disambiguation).
Watch on the Rhine
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Herman Shumlin
Screenplay by
Dashiell Hammett
Based on
Watch on the Rhine 1941 play by Lillian Hellman
Produced by
Hal B. Wallis
Starring
Bette Davis Paul Lukas Geraldine Fitzgerald Lucile Watson Beulah Bondi George Coulouris
Cinematography
Merritt B. Gerstad Hal Mohr
Edited by
Rudi Fehr
Music by
Max Steiner
Hugo Friedhofer
Production company
Warner Bros.
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release date
August 27, 1943 (1943-08-27)
Running time
114 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1,099,000[1]
Box office
$2.5 million (US rentals)[2] or $3,392,000[1]
Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin and starring Bette Davis and Paul Lukas. The screenplay by Dashiell Hammett is based on the 1941 play Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman. Watch on the Rhine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Paul Lukas won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Kurt Muller, a German-born anti-fascist in this film.[3]
^ abWarner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 24 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^Variety (8 March 2018). "Variety (January 1944)". New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company – via Internet Archive.
^"The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on March 21, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
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